This
is a new experiment (Oct 2002) in my presentation of Mondrian information, an
attempt to recreate the Mondrian exhibition held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London, in 1955. Taking the listing of works from the
Catalogue Raisonné, the plan
is to collect images of all the pictures exhibited and load them into a
FrontPage auto gallery. If that works then, over time, I will gradually
reconstruct all the larger exhibitions, say, all those with ten or more Mondrians.

On 20th November 2002 I visited
the gallery and with the kind help of the archivist, Janeen Haythornwaite, went
through the records of the exhibition. Regrettably there are no installation
photographs showing the layout of the exhibition, but there is a lot of
interesting background information which I will gradually sift through. The only
remaining poster, shown right, is not in mint condition. I have 18 pages of
press clippings, some interesting correspondence from Ben Nicholson I will try
to decipher and evidence that there is an error in the Catalogue Raisonné
on the listing of pictures exhibited.

Sadly, Bryan Robertson, the
gallery's director at the time of the Mondrian show and the decades following
had just died. He did a great deal to revitalise the Whitechapel after the war
and his passing had clearly affected the gallery staff.

The table at the bottom of the
page gives the catalogue details.

This is a fantastic selection of
works. It will take a while to assemble colour versions of all of those and I
may have to make do with the B&W versions in the catalogue for some. At first I tried to keep the sizes of the images in
proportion to the originals but have now switched to a standard height for all as a compromise
between viewing convenience and detail available.

Apologies for the delay in
assembling and presenting the pictures. This is taking longer than I had hoped
and the FrontPage gallery is not a particularly sophisticated tool.

The first number is the exhibition catalogue entry and the second entry the
reference in the
Catalogue Raisonné. For
example, 3:A290 is the third work in the exhibition catalogue (The River Gein:
Trees at Water's Edge c. 1902) and is A290 in the Catalogue Raisonné
(Row of Eight Young Willows Reflected in the Water c. 1905).
The descriptions with the images are taken from the exhibition catalogue